My first sanding tip: Start with a suitably coarse grit of sandpaper. Most wood purchased at a lumber yard or big box store is surfaced lumber (as opposed to rough cut lumber, right off the ...

Grit numbers range from 24 (extra-coarse) all the way up to over 1000—though most home improvement projects use sandpaper in a much smaller range, from roughly 60- to 360-grit. It's a common ...

Sandpaper grit refers to the coarseness of the sandpaper and is typically written as a number ranging from P60 to P320. The grit numbers indicate the texture of the sandpaper, with lower numbers ...

For instance, an authority on Colt revolvers may know details as intimate as the grit of sandpaper used at the factory. Regardless of the specialty, experts rely on some basic techniques to date a ...